Comparison

PantrySmart vs AZ

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PantrySmart

Features
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PantrySmart helps you waste less food, shop with more confidence, and keep your kitchen organized from one simple app. Track pantry, fridge, freezer, and household staples with quantities, photos, expiration dates, categories, storage locations, tags, and notes. PantrySmart highlights items that are expired, expiring soon, opened, frozen, low stock, recently added, or missing details, so you can find what needs attention before food gets forgotten. The Today dashboard puts the most useful actions first. See expired items, upcoming expirations, low staples, your next planned meal, and recipe ideas that help you use food before it goes to waste. Quick actions make it easy to add an item, review expiring food, check low stock, open the grocery list, jump to recipes, manage categories, and review sync. Build smarter grocery lists from recipes, restock needs, pantry items, or manual entries. Organize lists by store section or store, check items off while shopping, save recurring lists as templates, and add purchased items back into your pantry when the trip is done. Barcode scanning and product lookup help speed up both grocery and inventory entry. Plan meals and cook from what you already have. PantrySmart combines recipes, weekly meal planning, use-it-up ideas, leftovers, collections, missing ingredients, prep tasks, cooking reminders, and recipe sharing. When you mark a planned meal as cooked, PantrySmart can deduct ingredients from inventory and track leftovers for future meals. Use inventory insights to understand what you have, what you use, and what gets wasted. Log food usage and waste, review consumption trends, track grocery prices, manage price history, export reports, and use restock rules to keep important staples from running out. PantrySmart also includes practical tools for larger households and serious kitchen organization: duplicate detection, custom units, categories, locations, tags, scan history, barcode cache management, import and export, full backups and restores, local sync, sync activity, and conflict review. Key features include inventory tracking, expiration reminders, barcode scanning, grocery lists, grocery templates, recipe management, meal planning, use-it-up suggestions, leftover tracking, cooked meal ingredient deduction, waste logging, price tracking, household organization tools, backups, and widgets for expiring items. PantrySmart is designed for real kitchens: fast enough for quick grocery trips, detailed enough for organized pantries, and focused on helping you use more of the food you already bought.

About

AZ

Organize and track personal belongings across multiple locations with detailed information, including brand, price, and purchase dates. Features include GPS tracking, packing lists, and data export for inventory management.

Highlights
  • Detailed item tracking
  • Multi-location support
  • GPS and address autocomplete
  • Packing list creation
  • Data backup and CSV export
  • Smart calculations for weight and value
Features
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My Stuff helps you organize and track your personal belongings across multiple locations. Perfect for travelers, collectors, or anyone who wants to know exactly where their items are. KEY FEATURES Items Management • Track any physical object with detailed information • Store brand, price, weight, purchase dates, and more • Mark items as storage containers (backpacks, suitcases) • Track AirTag and Find My devices • Deprecation system for sold, donated, lost, or broken items Location Tracking • Store items in physical or logical locations • GPS coordinates with address autocomplete • "With Me" toggle for travel tracking • Contact person information for each location • Automatic calculations of total weight, value, and expiration dates • Open locations directly in Apple Maps • Priority sorting puts travel bags first Collections • Group items for trips, activities, or categories • Perfect for packing lists and trip planning • Track planned items (shopping lists) • See which items you own vs. need to purchase Data Management • Complete backup system with timestamped folders • CSV export/import for bulk editing in Excel or Google Sheets • All data stored locally on your device • Safe merge functionality when importing data Smart Features • Storage items can contain other items • Automatic weight and value calculations for locations • Search and filter your inventory • iOS Contacts-style interface design • Dark mode support PERFECT FOR • Travelers organizing packing lists • People with items across multiple locations • Collectors tracking their belongings • Anyone moving between homes • Estate planning and inventory management PRIVACY All your data stays on your device. Location permissions are only used when you choose to add GPS coordinates to locations. No data is sent to external servers. MY STUFF AT A GLANCE • Unlimited items, locations, and collections • Rich metadata tracking (brand, price, weight, dates) • Address autocomplete powered by location services • Export your entire inventory to CSV • Comprehensive help documentation built-in

Screenshots

PantrySmart4 screens
AZ3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AZ at none against PantrySmart's 1. PantrySmart's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PantrySmart sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AZ asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PantrySmart ships an update every 5 weeks, AZ every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PantrySmart versus AZ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPantrySmartAZ
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNevv Atlantis LLCAndreas Zoellner

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PantrySmart

One-time1
  • PantrySmart Pro$4.99
None

AZ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PantrySmart free?
PantrySmart is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AZ free?
AZ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PantrySmart or AZ have ads?
Neither PantrySmart nor AZ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PantrySmart or AZ?
PantrySmart ships an update every 5 weeks, and AZ every 6 months. Most recently, PantrySmart was updated on October 21, 2026 and AZ on October 8, 2026.

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